Read Part 1 This is Part 2: The above chart shows that overseas, the median 5G mobile broadband service cost per GB is .03 Euros — (one Euro is now $1.08 dollars) — less than 3 cents. Meanwhile, the Verizon 5G mobile broadband services we focused on in Part 1…

In the middle of watching Pawn Stars on YouTube, where the show was dedicated to top fakes that were brought into the infamous establishment for appraisal and a possible sale — it is interrupted by a new Verizon advertisement for a wireless broadband service (known as “FWA”, “Fixed Wireless”) that…

RE: IRREGULATORS Comments to NTIA: Digital Equity Act of 2021; Let’s start with a quote from 1997, by the New Jersey Ratepayer Advocate over the plan to have the Garden State upgraded 100%, replacing the existing copper wires of Verizon New NJ (Bell Atlantic) to fiber optics, which was announced…

Our work is not a history lesson, but an ongoing concern using the Verizon NY 2021 Annual Report, published June 2022. Verizon NY is the primary state telecom public utility and it covers 90% of the state. Long story short, this excerpt shows that the copper-based local voice service has…

Every Government Broadband Agency is Negligent for the Failure to Investigate and Clawback, Get Back the Money. Maybe someone should ask the “Public” whether they think it’s OK for the government to give out $100 billion in state and federal subsidies, when they — the FCC, the state broadband agencies…

The agencies, politicians, advocates and even the investigative reporters don’t even know who is to blame, or what are the core issues that need to be addressed to fix it. America is now giving over $100 billion in government funding to ‘solve the Digital Divide’. We’ve checked multiple county and…

2 New Books Exposing Massive Customer Overcharging and How Big Telecom Created the Digital Divide. Paraphrasing a conversation between authors David Rosen and Bruce Kushnick. “I didn’t order that Verizon service, Techsure, (which is an in-home maintenance service). I have no idea how it ended up on my broadband-internet bill. And it’s $15 a month. Then you tell me that it is also bombarded with…

By David Rosen with Bruce Kushnick On October 14th, 2022, AT&T Illinois, (also known as Illinois Bell Telephone Company), agreed to pay a $23 million fine to resolve a federal criminal investigation into alleged misconduct involving the company’s efforts to unlawfully influence former Illinois Speaker of the House Michael J…

No audits or investigations or explanations of how ‘The Company We Will Not Name’ — (AT&T et al.) red-lined, cross-subsidized, overcharged, and failed to upgrade America’s critical wired, public utility infrastructure over the last 30 years — including LA County. On Nov. 15th, 2022 the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors…